"Children watch your language!"

That was ace.

Tom, I've been a fan of your work for many years now, and this is one of the better installments of your strip. I got a belly-laugh out of each and every panel!

"Mistakes were made." Never, "I made a mistake," or, "We made mistakes."

Ya ever notice how that matches the general passivity of the average American public?

While it's sadly unlikely that Obama will break tradition and start inquiries leading to the legal prosecution of an ex-president, George Bush can still take a page from Nixon's book and do away with his own Secret Service guard.

The American people will do the rest.

I certainly hope nobody tries to kill Bush. He needs lifelong humiliation, not martyrdom. If he dies in a way that is self inflicted, for instance, by eating a pretzel, that would be awesome. But otherwise, he needs to hear boos everywhere he goes for a long, long time.

Just that. And, sadly, completely on point.

This just in ... an assistant undersecretary to an ancillary White House gardening aide just got a jaywalking ticket!!!

These Obamatons are just as bad as the Bushies.

I think the man sized safe refernce goes to a point of broad exaggeration for humorous effect, which saddly limits the punch of the overall speach.

The man-sized safe (ususally called a walk in safe) is a common feature of many executive offices where large ammounts of highly sensative information pass. So suggesting that it was storage for fictional victims of sacrafices fails to serve the central purpose of the piece (which I believe was more a slam at the complacancy of the American People and current administration).

I have found that the failure of parodists to understand the difference brterrn Burlesque and Parody, only serves to blunt their message. We know that what ever else George W. Bush isn't an idiot man child, and Dick Cheney isn't host of cosmic evil, althoug comparison of them to these things bring a laugh of broad recognition, they also take away the sting of their actual words (the essence of parody) which are often horrific enough.

Granted ofcourse some people, including Mr. Tororow might ask how we know that Dick Cheney isn't the host of cosmic evil since he has been so secretive. That of course is a little beside the point, since it is highly unlikely that he is.

If that information is revealed later then we can all recoil in actual horror at the revelation. Before that however, the joke simply serves to reinforce imagined moral superiority, and to take focus away from the actual issues we should be worried about.

I had a dream before the swearing in that Barrack Obama would take the oath of office and his first official act as President would be to turn to the Capitol police on stage, point to Dick Cheney and GW Bush and tell them to arrest those two for high crimes and misdemeanors.

This would have been the greatest single thing Mr. Obama could have done to fulfill his just finished oath to "..protect and defend the Constitution of the US."

Some will argue that such a thing would be too divisive for the country and it certainly would be but when it comes to defending the Constitution that is sometimes the price- just ask Abe Lincoln, whose name is so often mentioned these days.

One thing I have learned over the years is that claiming we will learn from our mistakes is a myth. If not, how do you explain our invasion of Iraq after the debacle of Vietnam. GWB's ratings would still be sky high if not for the fact that Iraq went so badly. People aren't against Bush for the fact that he is a war criminal, having invaded a sovereign state that posed no threat to us or that he violated international laws authorizing torture. Had Iraq gone well he's rating would still be 70%. It would have only encouraged him to further adventures and invasions with the masses cheering him on.

No. What keeps us from fascism isn't learning from the passed but a vigorous defense of the foundation of all law- The US Constitution. That is the only way this experiment in freedom and justice will work. It is the real genius of our revolution. Before all else we must be committed to "Defend and Protect…". The abuses of these past years must be reconciled if we are to make real progress.

It is time for our nation to stand up and say, "This will not stand."

Arrest em Danno.

We need to put them all against the wall and mow them down. It is our duty as revolutionaries. Now, who wants a biscotti?

There's your alternate universe where everyone realizes that Cheney is a Bond-like super-villian and Bush is a master criminal, who strangely, despite his excellence at getting away with obvious law-breaking, has an IQ of 72.

Or you could go to Tehran. What a fucking idiot.

Final panel nails it. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Sorry, but I disagree with the writer who thinks it was Iraq that sunk the Repugnantcans. If the economy hadn't gone down the crapper, chances are very good that we'd be reading reviews of Cindy's inaugural gowns. Although Iraq (and Katrina, etc. etc.) didn't help the Repug's cause, the majority of people in the U.S. really don't seem to care about anything beyond their wallet. And if their wallet seems healthy, to hell with everything (and everyone) else. We lucked out that, if it was going to crash, it crashed when it did.

....where President Obama's success in the next couple of years, along with his community-organizing skills (and the help of all of us) resulted in bringing a few more Democratic Senators and lots more progressive Democratic members of Congress.

I'd settle for a universe where we begin to roll back the economic insanity of the past 30 years, and where the attitudes and ideas of the "Republican revolution" feel as outdated as the 1950s did in the Sixties.

As written in today's "How the World Works":

...Thain couldn't possibly have thought his [1.2 million] office knickknacks worth purchasing if he didn't ...[live] in a society where outrageous levels of executive compensation are still considered by a healthy portion of the populace to be the justifiable rewards of business success.

They weren't considered justifiable in America just 30 years ago, nor are they in Japan or any European country today.

President Obama can't bring us that much change all by himself. We must continue to work hard for many years to come to bring about the change we seek.

But because of Obama, that change has moved from totally impossible, to merely extremely difficult.